Zhangde Mansion, the hardest-hit place in Henan, since the second year of Chongzhen, six consecutive years of drought, there are locusts, locust drought will be this Central Plains land tossed to the loss of vitality, the people do not survive one. In order to survive, many people with their families and mouths are willing to be coerced by the rogues and serve as cannon fodder for attacking the city and plundering the land, just to be able to eat half full before they die.

And those who did not want to be the thieves of the Kou struggled desperately in this cannibalistic world, and in the countryside you could often see wild dogs circling around a dying man, and when the man could no longer hold on and fell, it immediately became food for the wild dogs. Human flesh has eaten a lot, and the wild dogs in Zhangde are more terrifying than those in other places, and after a long time, this wild dog dares to take the initiative to attack the living.

A few years ago, there was constant news of whose child was lost in Zhangde's prefecture and county, but now no one mentions it anymore, because the entire Zhangde Mansion can't find a baby. Except for some of the children who fled with their parents to other places, none of the surviving victims wanted to mention it, let alone think about it.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the victims of Zhangde Mansion did not wait for the relief of the imperial court, but waited for the rogues who were more terrible than wild dogs

Lao Hui Ma Shouying and Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, Jiutiao Long, Guo Dacheng, and Guotianxing Huixiangdeng allied forces in Zhending ambush and killed Cao Wenzhao, the general soldier of the suppression, led his troops to occupy Cixian, Luo Rucai occupied Yingzhou, Guo Dacheng occupied Wu'an, and Guotianxing occupied Linxian, and the four families of more than 100,000 people lived happily in this county between Zhangde and Zhending.

The victims have little food, but there is still a lot of food in the prefecture and county, and the landlords and tyrants in the countryside also have a lot of food, although they can't support too many people, but it is not a problem to live happily for half a year. When the food in these places is eaten up, everyone will go to other prefectures and counties to burn and loot, anyway, the officials and soldiers are very cowardly, and they can all be beaten to death, and the rest of the gang who can't fight still need to be afraid of him? It's a good thing that Lao Tzu doesn't fight him!

A few days ago, Gao Yingxiang, who went to Jianghuai, suddenly sent someone to contact Lao Hui Hui and them, saying that the Eight Great Kings led people into Sichuan, and he led his headquarters to break into Nanyang Mansion, preparing to meet Lao Hui Huihui, and then everyone crossed the Yellow River together and returned to Shangluo Mountain in southern Shaanxi to rest, by the way, to avoid the limelight of the encirclement and suppression of the official army, and then fight out of the mountain and the official army to the end when the official army was exhausted.

Gao Yingxiang's proposition was supported by Guotianxing Hui Xiangdeng, who was also born in the border army, and knew that King Daochuang and the Eight Kings had burned the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum, and the court would never stop there, and Hong Chengchou would change his previous procrastination and work hard to kill them in order to get rid of his crimes. Although Ai Wannian and Cao Wenzhao, who can fight, were killed, but the official army is an official army after all, the weapons are stronger than the righteous army, and the food and salary are also more than the righteous army.

Didn't I see the battle of the Carriage Gorge, the officers and soldiers almost served everyone in a pot without much effort, if it weren't for Chen Qiyu being a nerd, everyone would still be able to eat meat and drink wine in a big bowl? It is good to cross the Yellow River first and return to Shangluo Mountain to avoid the limelight, if it is really blocked on the Yellow River beach by others, it is really called every day, and the earth is not spiritual, there is no second Chen Qiyu in this world, and Hong Chengchou is a murderer who surrenders, counting on him to open the net, it is better to count on the mud bodhisattva.

Guo Dacheng, the nine dragons who occupied Wu'an, had a simulated attitude, he didn't say that he agreed to return to Shaanxi with King Chuang, nor did he say that he wanted to stay in Wu'an, where to go, he couldn't make up his mind, it depended on what Lao Hui said to them.

The messenger sent by Gao Yingxiang was Li Zicheng's newly acquired Gu Junen, who came out of the sky star and the nine dragons, and immediately found Lao Huihui, and it happened that Luo Rucai was also there, so he told King Chuang's proposal. I thought that Lao Huihui and King Chuang had a fateful relationship, and Luo Rucai was also a brother who was born and died with King Chuang, and the two would definitely support King Chuang's proposal to cross the river, but after Lao Huihui and Luo Rucai heard it, they unanimously said that they would not cross the river.

Lao Huihui said well, it's okay for King Chuang to come, what is lacking for everyone, anyway, it doesn't miss the food of King Chuang's brothers, but it is not possible to let everyone follow the river back to Shaanxi. The reason given by Lao Huihui is that the place in Shaanxi has long been tossed, and there is no food for the army at all, and the king of Chuang is leading everyone to hide in Shangluo Mountain, which can raise more than 100,000 horses? If you really want to enter the mountain, I am afraid that if you don't have to fight with the official army, you will starve to death first.

Luo Rucai's reason is that the officials and troops in Henan and Beizhili don't dare to come over at all, in this case, everyone doesn't have to worry about the officials and troops coming to suppress them, and second, they don't have to worry about starvation, why do they have to cross the river and go back to Shaanxi? What are the people who are going to die and tear the flag and rebel for? It's not for the sake of having enough to eat, but now that the brothers have a full stomach and high morale, they don't dare to come over, so why should they run?

Seeing that these two people did not agree to return to Shaanxi, Gu Junen couldn't help but be anxious, and analyzed the danger of not being able to stay in the triangle of Zhending, Zhangde, and Huaiqing for a long time, and asserted that if the two did not cross the river, they would then be surrounded by Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng, the new prime minister of the five provinces of the imperial court. Although the rebel army broke through the central capital, and even beheaded Ai Wannian and Cao Wenzhao, two officers and tiger generals, but after all, only 20,000 or 30,000 can be fought by more than 100,000 miles, and the rest are old and weak women and children and cannon fodder coerced, which is useless at a critical time. It is better to resist the officials and soldiers here, it is better to avoid the limelight first, those officers and soldiers are all transferred from all over the country, and they can't stay in Henan all the time, right?

However, Ren Gu Junen said that he was out of his tongue, but Lao Huihui and Luo Rucai were determined to refuse to run anymore, and Gu Junen had no choice but to rush back to Nanyang to return to Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng.

After Gu Junen left, Lao Huihui and Luo Rucai glanced at each other and laughed heartily.

The 40,000 Liukou under Lao Huihui are all Huihui, and there are more than 5,000 cavalry in them, and Luo Rucai also has 50,000 Liukou, and the cavalry is not less than Lao Huihui, and the two families together have tens of thousands of cavalry. This force said that Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong could not compare, even if the cavalry of the other eleven families was combined, they could not catch up with them.

King Chuang and the Eight Kings captured the Central Capital, and it was certainly majestic to burn the imperial tomb, but we also killed Ai Wannian and Cao Wenzhao, two officers and generals, why do we want our brothers to follow your Gao Yingxiang's orders.

Lao Huihui and Luo Rucai have the heart to set up another pot, they rely on their strength and strength, and they are unwilling to live under Gao Yingxiang anymore.

In order to shock the stars and the nine dragons, Lao Huihui and Luo Rucai each sent a thousand cavalry to their side, one is to support the officials and soldiers at any time when they come, and the other is to warn them, without their consent, no one should think of throwing Gao Yingxiang.

After sending Luo Rucai away, the soldiers led one person into the tent, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Ma Dexi from the Tangyin Ma family's village, and couldn't help beckoning the other party to sit down and ask him what he was doing.